Gemma 3 4B pricing.
prices as of · 10 providers · 13 prices
Google's Gemma 3 4B holds 131k tokens of context and reads images as well as text. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.
Gemma 3 4B costs $0.05 in and $0.10 out per million tokens from OpenRouter; the cheapest price we can explain is $0.20 at Merge Gateway, checked 16 Sept 2026.
OpenRouter list price
$0.25/M tokens
$0.05 in · $0.10 out
read · 93% below the market median
Cheapest price we can explain
$0.20/M tokens
$0.04 in · $0.08 out · 20% under list
Merge Gatewayread
What it costs for your work
OpenRouter list price
$0.036a month
cheapest we can explain · Merge Gateway
$0.0288a month
difference
$0.0072saved
A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.
Run it yourself
every plan that fits Gemma 3 4B →Google publishes the weights, so you can run Gemma 3 4B on a server you rent by the month. It needs about 5.1 GB of RAM on a CPU, and the cheapest plan we track with that much and a disk included is HOSTKEY vm.v2-mini at $7.58/mo, streaming an estimated 3.7–7.4 tok/s.
Every provider selling Gemma 3 4B
Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against OpenRouter's price. Google trained Gemma 3 4B and sells it on no catalog we read, so the price every row is measured against is OpenRouter's.
Cheaper, and we know why
1 priceBelow list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.
- Merge Gateway
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
128k context here$0.04 / $0.08in / out per M
0.80×of list price
Same price as the maker
10 pricesThe same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Hugging Face Inference ProvidersThe same price OpenRouter charges.
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
$0.05 / $0.11in / out per M
1.06×of list price
$0.20 / $0.20in / out per M
3.21×of list price
Cheaper, and nobody says why
1 price · never rankedBelow list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.
FeatherlessWe could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
33k context hereFeatherless ↗$0.05 / $0.10in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Given away with limits
1 free tiers · never rankedThese providers give Gemma 3 4B away inside a quota of their own. A limit is not a price, so none of them counts as cheapest here or anywhere else on the site.
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Frequently asked
- Who sells Gemma 3 4B cheapest?
- Merge Gateway, at $0.04 in and $0.08 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
- Is Gemma 3 4B open weights?
- Yes. Google publishes the weights, so anyone may host Gemma 3 4B, which is why 10 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
- How much context does Gemma 3 4B hold?
- 131,072 tokens in one call, which is about 131k.
- How does Gemma 3 4B compare with the rest of the market?
- At $0.25 per million tokens, OpenRouter's price is 93% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.